Act quickly

Don’t wait around cursing the world and wondering if you’ll survive the lung-bursting noxious gasses erupting from the small puddle on the carpet whilst the furry culprit calmly cleans herself on the front door rug as if nothing happened. Don’t dawdle, get in there quick! Dab up as much as you can as soon as possible. The longer it sits, the longer it has to seep deeper into the carpet, the underlay and even onto the hardwood or subfloor below.

Get a wet vac working overtime on the wet spot

If you have a hearty wet-dry shop vac handy, let it loose on the pee spot quickly and run it until it overheats. Saturate the area with cold water and give the vacuum another session, sucking up as much of the diluted cat pee water as possible. Using warm or hot water expands the cellular fibres in the carpet and could set the smell into the carpet even more. Really let it have it with the shop vac.

Baking soda to the rescue?

Baking soda is a legendary odour conqueror, however the home remedy falls short to solve pet urine smells. The technique advises to soak as much of the pee and water up by dabbing with a cloth, and then spreading out a healthy coating of baking soda across the area, leaving it on the carpet overnight. In the morning, vacuuming it all up and hopefully, it will have pulled some of the smell out of the carpet. This technique can be problematic as it is hard to get all of the baking soda out of carpet. Residues left behind can act like sandpaper between carpet fibres as foot-traffic moves over the floor, which can affect your beautiful carpets appearance retention over time. Moisture interacting with the baking soda can also create new issues. Whilst these solutions seem easy as we all tend to have these products in our pantries, DIY stain and smell removal can often cause other issues which are trickier or more permanent than the problem you were trying to remedy in the first instance.

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Call a professional

Yes, that’s a lot of effort. It takes a serious amount of work to get out one of these kitty ‘gifts’. The worst part is if you don’t do it quite right, your pet might just return to the scene of the crime and repeat the behaviour on the same spot. You might not be able to smell the urine anymore, but your cat will and they tend to repeat the act if there’s a lingering odour. You have to get it right, so if you’re not up to the task let us take care of it for you. We’ll leave no trace of the urine smell in your carpet, guaranteed. It’s what we do. Just give us a call and we will return your home to the pristine state it was prior to when the toxic stench was draped across the home. We’ll leave it smelling like flowers and unicorn breath.